Vic Lombardi and Gary Miller host their morning sports radio talk show on Tuesday, April 26, with the Nuggets and their playoff hopes dominating much of the discussion. Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post

Miller, who left the CBS station last July after 22 years to become the sports voice of the Colorado State Rams, is back on the Broncos beat, working regularly through August training camp. He’ll also be teamed with Vic Lombardi on Sundays during the station’s extensive NFL seasonal coverage.

Miller also will be available for fall sports anchor duties if needed. His No.1 job remains CSU football and men’s basketball coverage on 105.5 FM.

The departure of Shapiro, Johnson and Nalen has produced local media chatter that suggests the station, operated by Front Range Sports Network, is having financial difficulties.

Front Range president Tom Manoogian denied rumors, saying the station is in “excellent financial shape.”

“We didn’t renew the contracts of Shapiro and Johnson because their program has not shown any audience growth,” Manoogian said. “Nalen was offered a new contract, but declined to stay.”

Lammey, an NFL facts-and-figures guy, has appeared on local sports talk shows for several years.

When asked how Kreckman could go solo three hours, Manoogian said: “He won’t be alone. The program will regularly feature local sports figures and Broncos players.”

Green would be great. Channel 7 has been utilizing Arran Andersen and Phil Aldridge in the sports anchor chair while searching for a full-time talent who also will serve as sports director.

A suggestion: How about Tom Green, who held both titles before Bienvenu arrived 13 years ago?

This is not a planted employment plug for Green, who has been the key broadcaster in the morning news shift at KWGN-Channel 2 since leaving Channel 7. I don’t even know if he’s interested in the job. But Green knows sports and has a personality that projects extremely well on television.

Marc Soicher remains in the Denver area working in the financial world.

Longtime Denver journalist Dusty Saunders writes about sports media each Monday in The Denver Post. Contact him at tvtime@comcast.net.

The Los Angeles Dodgers are battling for the National League West lead. But according to USA Today, an estimated 70 percent of the huge L.A. market (second to New York) can’t view the games because of a financial impasse between Time Warner Cable and local cable and satellite providers.

Updated July 28 at 9:40 a.m. The following corrected information has been added to this article: Because of a reporter error, the reporter leaving KCNC-Channel 4 was misreported. Tom Helmer is leaving the station permanently.

WASHINGTON — Thirty games into the 82-game NHL season, and nearly six weeks after the Matt Duchene trade, Avalanche general manager Joe Sakic discussed the state of his team before Tuesday’s 5-2 loss at the Washington Capitals.